By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
A July run up in cotton prices that occurred even as fundamentals for cotton were decidedly bearish was likely a big reason why analysts at the Cotton Roundtable in New York City were having a tough time projecting a potential range for December 2009 futures prices....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
At the halfway point of the 2009 U.S. cotton crop, analysts are saying the crop is shaping up to be between 12.42 million and 12.56 million bales, which is about 750,000 bales under USDA’s July 10 estimate. ...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Market opportunities for the 2009 corn crop and the 2009-2010 wheat harvest depend on factors as close to home as how much it rains in Iowa, as far off as how long it stays dry in Australia and as varied as how high or how low crude oil futures will move....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sit back and enjoy the ride. That’s basically the advice marketing experts were giving producers this morning now that cotton futures have risen out of the 40s and 50s and into the low 60-cent range....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The National Cotton Council created a stir last December when it released a series of articles examining the latest proposal for restarting the Doha Round of World Trade Organization negotiations....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Cotton producers have become accustomed to having their prices whipsawed by events on the other side of the world. ...
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A more liberalized international trade policy likely will not be an Obama administration priority in his first year in office....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy has decided against holding a mid-December ministerial meeting that some said would have been aimed at trying to wrap up the Doha Round before a new U.S. administration takes office....
By Ron Smith
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As Gary Adams, vice president of Economic and Policy Analysis for the National Cotton Council, took the podium to address the Sourcing USA Summit recently in Austin, someone asked if he had good news about the cotton market....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The National Grain and Feed Association says forcing managed index and pension funds to “take delivery” on commodities such as wheat may be one way to solve the lack of convergence on Chicago Board of Trade futures contracts....
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